WinAmp...

[jimbouk]

Anyone been keeping up with the recent source code debacle? Made me laugh as a good idea gone badly wrong, but did bring the name back to the collective conscious. A nice if slightly rambly Register piece on the software: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/...column_winamp/

[Of media players] Yes, there are many options, just none you could give to anyone and say "Here, this will play your music, you will understand how, it won't try to take your money nor sell you anything." Remember how software used to be? How music used to be?

I picked up the 5.8 build back in 2020 based on the timestamp on the download file (previous 5.63 installer timestamped 2012 still kicking around, I think "official" Win10 support was the excitement), and have it as the MP3 player on my computer. It just does what it says on the tin; add music, select how you want to listen to it, press play and park it neatly out the way for minimalist control. Bliss. I do have Spotify on my phone, which I have to force close after every time I use as it's obsessed with telling me what my wife is listening to otherwise. I ended up with VLC on my phone in order to play 'my' music for a similar experience (it's close).

Anyone else enjoying WinAmp still?

[Kanoe]

I still use it, I tried to switch but couldn't find anything else that fit the bill.

I think foobar was the closed I got to replacing winamp but it couldn't handle going back a track when using shuffle so went back to winamp.

I was hoping we might get a updated version but accept it may never make it.

[Percy1983]

I still use it but from what I have seen its a complete mess of a situation with the source code.

[AGTDenton]

I admit to loving it for a good few years. It had had some of the best skins.
But as the article states it lost out to WMP making improvements and I slipped back to that.
Since Vista, WMP synced with my earlier phones effortlessly.
I still use WMP today, for now, but not to the same extent. Mediamonkey might be on the horizon.
I need to fully re-digitise and reorganise my collection because it spans 3 decades of generating files using a multitude of computers and operating systems with many different methods of storing & organising. It's a shambles.

If something comes of the Lama I might look into it a bit more. But I'm not really sure this is going to do anything for the brand or advancement of the software. They've not done anything interesting for the better part of 15 years

[Saracen999]

Despite having used it a lot back in pre-history, I can't say I have in many years.

Thes days, I ue a blend of stuff. On PCs, mostly MediaMonkey. It does what I need. On Android, I did manage to coax Foobar into doig some of what I wanted. Also, on both, the Sonos app for Sonos speakers, and I was just about to buy several more Sonos speakers when they released that utter carcrash of an 'upgrade', back in, what, April-ish. They STILL have got full functionality back in it yet, though in many ways, for what I want (local FLAC files on NAS) it's usable Just. But that did end any chance of me EVER trusting them again so, no more Sonos speakers. I'll use what I've got, but everything else, well, I now have Bluesound Node X's. And, so far, so good.

i can connect most streaming services as sources for either the Sonos software (if that bit's working yet) or Bluesound, but so far, don't. I only use local library files on the NAS, from my CDs and LPs. I d have a voucher for a few months of Qobuz laying around, and I'll try it one day, but I very much doubt I'll get enough usage from any streaming service to be willing to pay for it. Not long-term, anyway.

Which leaves me with a hodge-podge of Foobar, Media Monkey, and both Sonos and Bluesound apps in use, currently.